Architects of Cathedrals: Christopher Wren, Oscar Niemeyer, Filippo Brunelleschi, Giles Gilbert Scott, Nicholas Hawksmoor, George Gilbert Scott

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 125. Chapters: Christopher Wren, Oscar Niemeyer, Filippo Brunelleschi, Giles Gilbert Scott, Nicholas Hawksmoor, George Gilbert Scott, William Butterfield, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Edmund Blacket, Anthony Salvin, William Burges, Robert Lawson, Benjamin Mountfort, William Wardell, George Frederick Bodley, Bertram Goodhue, Ralph Adams Cram, Patrick Keely, Philip H. Frohman, Basil Spence, James Renwick, Jr., Pietro Belluschi, James Piers St Aubyn, Benjamin Ferrey, Heins & LaFarge, Richard Upjohn, John Loughborough Pearson, Arthur Blomfield, Samuel Sanders Teulon, Thomas Garner, E. W. Pugin, George Edmund Street, Thomas Archer, Edward Graham Paley, Charles Francis Hansom, Arnolfo di Cambio, Napoleon LeBrun, Richard Charles Hussey, Thomas Newenham Deane, George Goldie, Adrian Gilbert Scott, Alberto di Giovanni Alberti. Excerpt: Edmund Thomas Blacket (25 August 1817 - 9 February 1883) was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn. Arriving in Sydney from England in 1842, at a time when the city was rapidly expanding and new suburbs and towns were being established, Blacket was to become a pioneer of the revival styles of architecture, in particular Victorian Gothic. He was the most favoured architect of the Church of England in New South Wales for much of his career, and between late 1849 and 1854 was the official Colonial Architect to New South Wales. While famous for his churches, and sometimes referred to as of The Wren of Sydney, Blacket also built houses, ranging from small cottages to multi-storey terraces and large mansions; government buildings; bridges; and business premises of all sorts. Blacket's architectural practice was highly influential in the development of Australian architectu...